Stephen Pritchard 

Gabriel Jackson: Requiem – review

Gabriel Jackson's Requiem is only the starting point in this fine exploration of life and love by the Vasari Singers, writes Stephen Pritchard
  
  


While personal loss lies at the heart of this new collection from the ever admirable Vasari Singers, it is predominantly a superb celebration of life and love. Taking Gabriel Jackson's thickly textured Requiem as a starting point, it includes two other moving memorial pieces by him – In All His Works, written for Allan Wicks, the inspirational former master of the choristers at Canterbury, and I Am the Voice of the Wind, a tender setting of words by Geraldine Atkinson, the daughter of a Vasari member, who died suddenly in 2009. Always ready to commission and perform new work, this choir grows in stature with each new recording.

 

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